Better Not To Do
There is no shortage or different types of tires, but you have to use them at the right times. For example, there is absolutely no point in Driving on Winter Tires in the Summer. Yet in the Netherlands, in the middle of Summer, As many axis 260,000 cars drive around on winter tires.
A Group of BOVAG Inspectors In The First Week of August On Parking Lots in Utrecht, Duiven and ‘s-Hertogenbosch or A Total of 1,360 Cars Looked at What Kind of Car Tires they were on. It Turned Out That 794 Cars Were Driving on Summer Tires, 529 Were on all-season Tires and 37 Were Still Using Winter Tires, 2.7 percent of the Total. Bovag Dares to Extrapoleate That percentage to the complete Dutch Car Fleet and Concludes That 2.7 percent of all Cars in the Netherlands – 260,000 cars – Simply Drive on Winter Tires in the Summer.
The good news: the percentage of 2.7 percent of cars that drive on winter tires in the summer is significant lower than two years ago. At that time, 7.8 percent of cars were driving on winter rubber in the summer. Accordance to bovag, this decrease is related to the rise of the all-season tire. Two years ago, 32 percent of the Dutch Car Fleet had them, nowadays that percentage is Almost 39 percent (3.7 Million Cars).
It is not wise to drive on winter tires in the summer. They are made of softer rubber than summer tires and can beece even softer in the summer. This results in a longer braking distance, Higher Fuel Consumption and extra Wear and Tear and Therefore also extra private matter and noise production.